Minería y sociedad en el México colonial

Si la historia es un diálogo sin fin entre el presente y el pasado, podríamos decir que son los niños la fibra sensible donde se va depositando la subjetividad del presente, donde se va acumulando el amor, el desprecio, el abandono, la pobreza, la indiferencia, la soledad, el maltrato directo o indirecto del mundo de los adultos, de los que hacen la historia —historia que los interviene, los modela, los arriesga y los desafía tempranamente— y se va apozando, transformándose en una huella casi imperceptible pero que tiene la intensidad de las marcas de fuego. Y desde allí se va...

Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...

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